03/30/1852
Ohio restricts hours for women workers
09/26/1859
Striking miners attack "blackleg" workers in the Pittsburgh coalfields
11/05/1859
Meeting in Kentucky protests the economic domination of the East Coast
01/23/1860
Committee to help survivors of the Pemberton Mills Disaster say sufficient funds have been collected
02/20/1860
Stone cutters working on the new Catholic Cathedral in New York City down tools
02/22/1860
Thousands of shoemakers go on strike for higher wages in Lynn, Massachusetts
02/27/1860
Seven hundred striking shoemakers march from Lynn to Marblehead
03/08/1860
Undetered by heavy snow, women shoe worker strikers parade in Lynn, Massachusetts
05/08/1863
Twelve railwaymen in Michigan form the Brotherhood of the Footboard, first permanent engineers' union
05/23/1863
Ferdinand Lasalle founds the first worker's party in Germany, forerunner of today's Social Democratic Party
